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The Greens want daycare centers, schools, workplaces, hospitals and care homes to serve healthier, more regional and more organic food, including one vegan dish every day. According to the program, this benefits health, the climate and the environment and reduces the land needed for animal feed.

The Greens want better food in cafeterias. This applies to daycare centers, schools, hospitals and care homes. There should be more organic food and more food from the region. There should be a vegan dish every day. Children should learn about food at school.

Cafeterias run by the state are to lead the way and follow the standards of the German Nutrition Society and the "Planetary Health Diet." Nutrition education is to be established in all types of schools, certification of daycare centers and schools expanded, and chef training modernized. The school fruit program would include more organic and seasonal regional produce, and a voluntary three-level organic label would show how sustainable catering is. Fermentation and cell cultivation are to be developed and used in the state. At the federal level the Greens call for what they see as fair taxation of plant-based and organic products, and at the EU level for a binding definition of "vegan" and "vegetarian"; they reject bans on names for plant-based meat alternatives.

The Greens want to expand the Verbraucherzentrale's (consumer advice center) counseling on energy and debt so that electricity and heating cutoffs do not happen in the first place. They also want protection against online fraud, a complaints office for artificial intelligence and consumer education in schools.

The Greens want to protect consumers better. The consumer advice center should offer more help, also in rural areas. There should be an office for complaints about artificial intelligence. Students should learn from grade 9 how to spot cost traps.

The consumer advice center would keep its core public funding and reach areas without an office through mobile pop-up counseling and digital services. The party supports a technically secure European digital identity wallet that, in its view, should be run by public bodies rather than private providers. People deceived or disadvantaged by AI would get clear rules and a complaints office in the state. Consumer education is to become a fixed part of lessons from ninth grade, starting with pilot projects, teaching materials and teacher training.

The Greens want equal treatment of religions and worldviews and more consideration for Islam in schools, cemeteries and holiday rules. They support building up Islamic religious education. Dancing bans on public holidays are to be lifted, and the party is open to a nationwide phase-out of state payments to the churches.

There are many religions in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Greens want to treat them all the same. Schools should also offer Islamic religion classes. Dancing should be allowed on quiet holidays. Jewish communities should keep getting support.

In the long run, a shared class teaching religious studies and ethics through dialogue is to be promoted. Holiday rules are to be limited to protecting religious events. The state commissioners for Jewish life, antisemitism and antiziganism are to stay and be strengthened. For a transcultural opening of the state, the party plans a strategy across all ministries, drawn up together with civil society. The program regards religious actors as partners for social cohesion.

The Greens want to preserve and expand municipal and club-owned sports facilities and make them energy-efficient and accessible. A special funding program is to secure swimming pools so that all children can swim by the end of elementary school. Sports clubs, inclusion and fan projects are to get more support.

The Greens want to keep and renew sports fields and halls. Swimming pools should get money from a special program. All children should learn to swim in elementary school. Coaches in clubs should get higher allowances. Sports should be open to everyone.

Sports facilities of regional importance are to receive state funding in the future, and the party backs serial construction for new pools. Allowances for coaches are to rise noticeably, and partnerships between clubs and all-day schools are to grow. Plans include measures against sexualized violence, permanent violence prevention, continued funding for Special Olympics and inclusion guides, and free public exercise offers in municipalities. A central contact office in the state government is to coordinate sports policy. Fan projects are to keep receiving support, and at the federal level the party wants a right to refuse testimony in parts of social work; e-sports clubs are also to be funded.